2011 Maintaining patients’ trust: modern medical professionalism

This report includes submissions from a range of respected external organisations and opinion leaders. It describes SCTS’ work on:

• outcomes and the role of professional societies in using clinical outcomes;
• the importance of continuing professional development;
• measuring patient reported outcomes;
• the role of multi-source feedback;
• managing poor performance;
• the NHS Chief Executive’s view;

and the future direction that SCTS as a professional society needs to take in order to further improve quality of care for patients.